THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CLOUDY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
82nd Year, No.104
Monday, March 13, 1972
Tom Wolfe Informally, Formally
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Deserters:
'Amnesty Is Not Enough'
STOCKHOLM (AP)—Leaders of American draft resisters and deserters who have found refuge in Sweden say they are "not enough to bring the home colony.
"I'm not going back," said George Meals of Atlanta, Ga.
Meals, 27, and others among the estimated 670 U. S. draft-dodgers and Army dropouts living in Sweden have discussed the amnesty projects under which they don't want forgiveness because they aren't the guilty ones in the Vietnam war.
"Every American tax-paying citizen is a criminal for paying taxes that provide money to the government."
Robert Argento, 26, said, "If arnesty would think of about 200 of us would think of going back."
Argento, employed by the Swedish government to work among fellow defectors, is an exception in the refugee community.
He has a working knowledge of Swedish, good health and a regular job. He and Meals have been in the country for more than three years.
Others in the detector ranks are less sure of themselves. They still make the rounds of leftist sympathizers or girl friends, carrying their sleep bags from apartment to apartment. Unable to speak the language, they are unable to work
"Amnesty—the they talk about amnesty but I don't even have the money to go to the movies," says a U. S. visitor to a deserter gathering in provincial Malmo.
The Swedish welfare agency pays for the weekly social meeting and free meal, saying it helps officials keep track of the deserter community. Nearly all the deserters draw government benefits, such as free health care.
but they remain young men cast adrift in a foreign country.
Fifteen deserters are serving jail sentences for drug peddlers, authorities report, and nearly half the resisters have been caught in the police, often petty sniffing.
Two have committed suicide, official records show.
walks into the U. S. Embassy, asking for
them to stay in New York.
The withdrawal of U. S. troops from Vietnam has turned the flow of resisters into a trickle. Now an average of one in every 10,000 people is in Sweden. He nearly always gets it.
Combining folk rock music with country sounds, Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot entertained a Saturday night audience in Hoechst. The band's sound is upbeat and fun.
Lightfoot Soothes Festival of Arts Audience
his clear and simple style. The packed house is uncomfortably warm, but the audience was pleased with the performance and the delivery.
Amendment Urged
U.S. Primary Is Proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two of the most influential members of the Senate will propose Monday a constitutional amendment to national presidential primary election.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont, the dean of Republican senators, say the present system of law guarantees on separate dates under different laws in a circus, unfair to the candidates and the electors.
The candidates pick and choose state primaries in which they think they can be successful, Mansfield said in a speech prepared for delivery in the Senate. He presented two tests offered the voter or the host before final voting on their resemblance of similar opportunities.
MANSFIELD SAID the real issue in Tuesday's Florida primary, for example, has little, if anything, to do with the issue of selecting a presidential candidate."
Straw-vote referenda on school buses and on equal opportunity in education have been placed on the Florida ballot and are a national issue. But who might otherwise have staved home
The Mansfield-Aiken constitutional amendment would provide that the primary be held early in August of the year, so nominations would go to which candidate polled the most votes, as long as it were at least 40 per cent of the votes cast
in each party.
IF NO ONE received 40 per cent, a runoff between the top two finishers would be held four weeks later. Under the Mansfield-Aklen amendment, parties in both constituencies conventions to nominate vice-presidential candidates and adopt platforms.
To become effective, the amendment would have to be approved by two-thirds majorities in the Senate and the House, and be ratified by at least 38 states.
"We've been fed up for years with these crises taking place in various states," Mauger said.
Mansfield noted in his speech for today that the number of states holding statewide primaries this year is up to 25 from 14 in 1968.
THE CANDIDATE, Mansfield said, is found "enmeshed in a maze of laws, customs, and bad practices that leave him physically exhausted, financially deflated and more often than not, politically defeated."
There are also provisions to guarantee that the would-be candidate's support is not just regional. He would need to meet a minimum petition requirement in at least 17 states, as well as the over-all 1 per cent figure.
To get on a party's primary national ballot under the proposal, a potential candidate would need the signatures of one member who is in the last previous presidential election.
Senators Give Pros, Cons of Experiences
By CATHY SHERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate received both praise and criticism this week as many of those senators eligible to seek reelection this year have served in previous experiences in the Senate this past term.
There were a number of reasons several
For some, being a senator was an educational and satisfying experience. But for others, it was a source of stress.
senators were not seeking reelection. Some were too busy. Others planned to force their attention on interests in the Senate, while others had disaffected with the Senate and charged it with elitism, inefficiency or bias. Senators sailed the Senate was worthless.
George Livingston, Plainville graduate student and senator from the Graduate School, said that he was still interested in Senate activities but would rather work on
Legislative Appropriations Include Pay Raise for University Employes
After 16 hours of virtual nonstop
contact Friday, June 25, the Legislature
concluded its 972 session.
The House approved a $430 million appropriations bill, passed by the Senate last week, in Friday's session. The bill included funds for higher education which would provide a five per cent pay increase for faculty members at state institutions, as well as a one-step increase for classified employees at the universities.
The seven state-supported schools are the University of Kansas, the University of Kansas Medical Center, Fort Hayes Kansas State College, Kansas State Teacher's School, Wichita State College of Pittsburg, and Wichita State University.
Hill said that $75,000 which had been appropriated to replace the steam lines from the former school and Sprague Apartments Jan. 30 at KU would be deducted from the fiscal 1973 budget and would be placed in the fiscal 1972 budget, as approved by the governor.
The appropriations for all state-supported colleges and universities were passed substantially, as recommended by the Clyde Hill. R-Yates Center, said Sunday.
The legislature will reconvene for a special one-day session March 20 to consider the extension of the property tax lid law and its local sales tax provision, an omnibus pay raise bil and the lowering of the age of the majority from 21 to 18.
particular interest to Lawrence, since the city enacted a half-cent retail sales tax
HILL, CHAIRMAN of the House Ways and Means Committee which studied the appropriations, said $15,632,265 had been appropriated from the state general fund to increase salaries and wages at KU, an increase of $112,810.
The Majority Age Bill, including an amendment which would permit 18-year-olds to buy liquor, was passed Wednesday in Senate. The House approved the bill Fri. 23rd.
Sen. Bob Storey, R-Topeka, said the House committee had raised the legal age to buy liquor from the proposed 18 to the present 21.
The state general fund also allocated more money for the Kansas State Geological Survey, the training of firemen and general research at KU.
THE SALES TAX question is of
The omnibus pay raise bill, if enacted.
would provide classified civil service employees at the universities with a one-step pay increase three months early, on April 1 instead of July 1. The bill would also raise the salaries of legislators and other officials with the exception of the governor.
committees and projects than serve again as a senator.
Several highlights of the 1972 legislative session were the restoration of last year's welfare cuts, a penal system reform involving the construction of a new prison facility and the reapportionment of the legislature.
SOME OF the committee work is the most important part of the Senate," he
Livingston said he wasn't so interested in attending the Senate meetings because he didn't have enough influence to be effective. He also said he thought too much time was devoted to discussions concerning the activity fee allocations.
Livingston said he supported the recent Senate enactment that would annually allow college students to activity fee to various activities such as the Concert Course and the University Daily Kansan. This way, Livingston said, he haggled over those allocations each year.
Svoboda said the Senate probably did represent the feelings of the majority of the students most of the time. She said that even though the majority of students didn't vote or participate in the Senate, a cross section of students "that happen to be strong enough" would strongly Strong on election day" probably represented a cross section of the students.
Livingston also supported the recent enactment that distributed funds from the county to residents in town used in whatever manner the council of that school decided. This also alleviated some problems in deciding how the fee should be spent, Livingston said.
LIVINGSTON said the ideal situation in student government would be one in which all students could be a part of the Senate. He suggested a method that would give each school a certain number of votes, and then determine how the school's votes would be cast in the Senate. He questioned the feasibility of such a method because he
Diane Downing, Overland Park sophomore and Nunemaker senator, said that she really enjoyed being a senator and that it was a very educational experience. She chose not to seek reelection, however, because she is planning to get married and
didn't think that many more students would become involved.
Livingston said that the Senate was more or less a group that liked to be politically involved and if a change was needed, they would attend. There wouldn't really be much of a difference.
DOWNING SAID that the Senate was fairly representative of the students and also important because the Senate's allocation of the activity fee provided the means for students to obtain funds they wouldn't ordinarily receive.
Jan Svoboda, Chapman junior and Pearson senator, said the Senate was too involved in petty politics and personal games to be effective.
SHE SAID that legislation was often passed as a result of the personalities of the persons who presented the legislation rather than the issues themselves.
A lot of time was wasted, Svoboda said, because much of the discussion was unnecessary and often caused by news reports that weren't related to any Senate issues.
Downing said a workshop that would explain political procedure would be very beneficial to new senators. She said that in the beginning of the Senate term last year she didn't think that many new senators knew what was going on.
Downing said she thought the Senate had done an effective job, and if she had time, she would be interested in working with Senate committees.
wanted to devote more time to other things.
"IWANTED TO get into the Senate as a learning experience, and this was accomplished," Supti said. "I didn't get into the Senate as much as others did, so I thought that I would make room for someone else to serve."
David Saptic, Overland Park junior and Engineering School senator, also decided not to seek rejection because he wanted to direct his time in other areas, he said.
Suptic said he thought the Senate was worthwhile, although a small group of people who wanted to take the time generally did all of the work. Suptic said a meek person would have difficulties trying to deal with this.
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Pearson Says Primaries Cost Too Much
By MARTI STEWART
Kansan Staff Writer
He said the results indicated to him that Sen. George McGovern, D-S-D, D., had enhanced his position as a respectable, Democratic candidate in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Sen. James B. Pearson said Friday that the amount of money spent on presidential primaries in the United States was becoming "almost immoral."
Rep. Paul McCloskey, R-Calf, and Rep. John Ashbrook, R-Ohio, do not present serious threats to President Nixon, according to Pearson. He said both men were in office for a short time, an influence Nixon's political policies and that neither expected to gain strong support.
Pearson said the New Hampshire primary on March 7 was only "round one in a war of nerves" and only the beginning of psychological warfare.
"PETE McCLOSKEY is doing what he really thinks he needs to do," Pearson said. "He doesn't need a joke, not necessarily because of his political convictions. If he can only get 10
"I hope to God someday we can find a better way to elect our presidential candidates than by putting them through this nationwide obstacle course. The candidates will oppose the voters, and end up being what of an absurd, comic steele chancellor"
per cent of the vote in New Hampshire, then that doesn't say much about the depth of a town's economy.
Pearson said he did not know who his most likely opponent would be in the coming senatorial election, but he thought that Mr. Obama made that it would be Gov. Robert Docking.
"GOVENOR DOCKING would be quite all right with me," he said. "We stand for justice."
Pearson said he did not think the President's visit to China would have any short term effects on trade or on setting up diplomatic relations with the Chinese.
"There are two issues that separate our governments—Taiwan and Vietnam. Neither will be resolved in the immediate future," he said.
"The people of this country never see
achievements unless they have something in their hands. Did we make money out of it? Or was there some physical achievement?
"A new feeling and attitude were really the great things achieved—something quite substantial. I think I've been as President on this trip as I've ever been."
PEARSON SAID the changes resulting from this trip would not be with Red China, but in U. S. relations with Japan and the U. S. S. R.
When Earl L. Butz was first nominated for Secretary of Agriculture, Pearson said he had "never been able to prove that."
"The mail in my office was running strongly against him. I felt an enormous tide of opinion against him," Pearson said. "I felt at that time that there was a need for purpose and unity and direction in the farm industry.
See PEARSON, Page 7
"Butz had said that nothing could be done about the great migration from the country to cities. That's where we parted company."
Kansan Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Sen. Pearson Reflects on Issues "Busing is an aband waste of money"